Economics

This channel highlights factors that impact hospital and healthcare economics and revenue. This includes news on healthcare policies, reimbursement, marketing, business plans, mergers and acquisitions, supply chain, salaries, staffing, and the implementation of a cost-effective environment for patients and providers.

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AHRQ fact sheet aligns providers to National Quality Strategy

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has published a new fact sheet to align providers to the National Quality Strategy.

Struggling hospitals investing less in analytics, population health

Financial system transformation is taking center stage as a hospital technology priority as healthcare executives look to remain financially solvent. As such, many struggling hospitals are putting population health and analytics on the back burner, according to a survey from Black Book.

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Time to Reassess MU

Some of us have been publicly calling for relief in the timelines of the Meaningful Use program since it was created by ARRA in 2009. The recently proposed program changes are thus welcome.  Do they go far enough?

FDA pilot program surveys EHR, claims data to monitor drug safety

FDA’s pilot program for the agency’s Sentinel System—dubbed Mini-Sentinel—is utilizing EHR data in combination with claims information to better monitor the safety of FDA-regulated products.

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eCQMs & CDS: Two Sides of the Same Coin

Electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs) and clinical decision support (CDS) share many similarities and common requirements, all with the goal of improving healthcare quality.

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Data Drives Better PCMH Outcomes: A Case Study of Strategic Analytics in Colorado Springs

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In healthcare today, managing the health of patients and practices is all about managing risk. Adding value-driven, population-focused strategic analytics makes the process a lot less risky. Colorado Springs Health Partners (CSHP) is proof positive that analytics and clinical intelligence work for patients and providers.

HIMSS Analytics Announces Siemens as Certified Educator of the DELTA-Powered Analytics Assessment

CHICAGO (June 23, 2014) – HIMSS Analytics today named Siemens Healthcare a Certified Educator of the DELTA PoweredTM Analytics Assessment.

ConvergeHEALTH by Deloitte and Regenstrief Institute Announce Collaboration to Accelerate the Use of Real World Evidence in Health Care

NEW YORK, INDIANAPOLIS, June 17, 2014 – ConvergeHEALTH by Deloitte and the Regenstrief Institute, Inc. are announcing that Regenstrief, an internationally recognized informatics and health care research organization, has become a member of ConvergeHEALTH’s real-world evidence and analytics consortium. 

Around the web

U.S. health systems are increasingly leveraging digital health to conduct their operations, but how health systems are using digital health in their strategies can vary widely.

When human counselors are unavailable to provide work-based wellness coaching, robots can substitute—as long as the workers are comfortable with emerging technologies and the machines aren’t overly humanlike.

A vendor that supplies EHR software to public health agencies is partnering with a health-tech startup in the cloud-communications space to equip state and local governments for managing their response to the COVID-19 crisis.

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